Charles E. Dudley

Charles Edward Dudley (23 May 1780-23 January 1841) was a US Senator from New York (D) from 15 January 1829 to 3 March 1833, succeeding Martin Van Buren and preceding Nathaniel P. Tallmadge.

Biography
Charles Edward Dudley was born in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, England in 1780, the son of American loyalists who had fled from the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. His English father died in 1790, and his mother brought her son back to her home state of Rhode Island in 1795. Dudley later moved to Albany, New York and became a merchant, marrying into an influential family in Albany. He joined Martin Van Buren's "Albany Regency" machine, ensuring that he was elected to succeed Van Buren in the US Senate in 1829 when Van Buren became Governor of New York. Dudley played an inconspicuous role in the Senate, but he was a loyal Jacksonian. He died in 1841.